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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish semilla (“seed”), from Latin semen (“seed”),[1][2] possibly from a label accompanying the first potatoes arrived in Madeira from the Canary Islands that was mistaken as identifying the name of the plant.[3]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iʎɐ
- Hyphenation: se‧mi‧lha
Noun
semilha f (plural semilhas)
- (Madeira) potato
- Synonym: batata
1848, Revista universal Lisbonense, volume 8:as semilhas (batatas) que, na decadência do vinho, eram o principal recurso da gente do campo, perderam-se, como em toda a parte.- the potatoes that, with the decline of the wine, were the main resource of the country folk, were lost, like it happened everywhere else.
1921, Fernando Augusto da Silva, Elucidário Madeirense:Morreu uma boa parte da população madeirense […] por haver faltado a semilha- The failure of the potato crop resulted in the death of a high number of Madeirans
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